9 Sep 2022 10:58 am
The founders were very collectivist. It was the cold War propaganda that first began to brainwash the public against any and all collectivism (cuz of course we can't be like Communists) then 40 years of MTV culture glorifying greed, criminals and *** finished off the countryjack » 09 Sep 2022, 10:21 am » wrote: ↑ Do you know what a Republic is? It's any nation state that is not a monarchy, as were all the national governments familiar to the Founders. We are distinguished as a republic from The People's Republic of China, for example, or the former USSRepublics, by that other staple in the Constitution: representative democracy, also a collective term. And the "individual states" you mention also are representative (or collective) democracies. Individualism in this country is a personal and socially influenced trait, not a Founding principle.